Dickens House Museum

07/09/2026

Our friends at VisitBroadstairs beat us to our own post about our Heritage Open Days guided walks 😁😂😍

As part of Heritage Open Days

12 September 2026
DICKENS TOWN TRAIL
A short guided tour of Dickensian Broadstairs to learn about his connections to the town.

Walks will be at 1.30pm and 2.45pm and will last around an hour

15 spaces on each walk, first come, first served. Meet at Nuckell’s Garden, directly in front of Dickens House Museum.

Join a fantastic local Dickens House Museum volunteer for a short walk around Broadstairs, to discover connections to Charles Dickens.

Accessibility details - The walk may be hilly at some points

VisitThanet

01/09/2026

It’s almost Heritage Open Days time again, hard to believe that’s a year gone by in a blink of a Dickens eye!
We’ll be offering free entry on Friday 11th, Saturday 12th, Friday 18th and Saturday 19th of September, as well as a Charles Dickens themed walk around Broadstairs led by local historian Ken Nickoll on Saturday 12th…more details to follow.

09/08/2026

We’re absolutely delighted to get top billing in Telegraph travel writer Gavin Haines article about Broadstairs and Charles Dickens love of the town!

16/07/2026

We’ve some blooming marvellous news, but not about the flowers in the garden (although they are looking lovely today!). During July and August we’re taking part in the UK Government’s children’s and family attractions admissions VAT discount scheme!

This means a discount of £1.50 on a family of four ticket (usual charge £12.50) and 30p on an individual child’s ticket (usual charge £2.50).

13/06/2026

What a lovely afternoon we’ve had, with the Festival parade, and in the museum garden, our friends The Dickens Declaimers, performing part of the Pickwick Papers.
Tomorrow our volunteers will be performing ‘The Signalman’ in their guise of The Household Wordsters; performances at 1.45pm, 2.45pm and 3.45pm.

12/06/2026

While you're visiting why not do one of our themed walking trails around !
The 'Dickens Town Trail', written by our very own volunteer and local historian Ken Nickoll, is available from the museum admissions desk. The new 'In Broadstairs with Dickens' is a smartphone based app, produced by Gazooky Studios for the Canterbury Christ Church University led and The National Lottery Heritage Fund sponsored 'Let's' do the Time Walk Again' project, which we're a partner of. You can get onto this trail by scanning a QR code here at the museum and also at other venues in the town including Bleak House.

11/06/2026

It's the second week of June which can only mean one thing in - its festival time! The town's has been held annually since 1937 and this year's no different on the 12th-14th (Friday-Sunday). As ever will be taking part, with our wonderful volunteers and The Broadstairs Dickens Declaimers taking center stage - keep an eye on our Facebook and Instagram throughout the week for more details!

As for this picture, we think its from the early 1960s, its Dickens House before it became a museum. However, the house was often open to the public even then, our earliest guide book dates back to the 1930s! And just look at those costumes 😍

Normal admission charges apply to the museum, there is no additional charge for the performances. Wider festival details can be found here https://www.broadstairsdickensfestival.co.uk/events

11/06/2026

starts tomorrow, Friday 12th June! For our our final event announcement we're pleased to share that The Dickens Declaimers will be performing 'The Trial of Bardell v Pickwick' from breakthrough story The !

The performance will take place in the museum garden (Nuckells Garden) at 2.30pm on Saturday (13th June), 🤞for good weather!

Normal admission charges apply to the museum, there is no additional charge for the performance. Wider festival details can be found here https://www.broadstairsdickensfestival.co.uk/events

11/06/2026

Our wonderful volunteers have been working on a rather chilling performance; 'The Signalman', which will be performed each afternoon of the in our dining room.

will be open every day of the festival from 1pm, with last entry at 4pm. Normal admission charges apply to the museum, there is no additional charge for the performances. Wider festival details can be found here https://www.broadstairsdickensfestival.co.uk/events

10/06/2026

Have you seen the news about Visit Thanet's accessible tourism scheme? Using UK Shared Prosperity Fund funding Thanet District Council's tourism team have rolled out online accessibility training and also partnered with to undertake access audits, which has benefited from.

We're an old and historic building but we want to be as accessible as possible, if you are differently able and need to know more about how we can accomodate you before visiting us check out our AccessAble page - https://www.accessable.co.uk/visit-kent/access-guides/dickens-house-museum